[Peace-discuss] action idea re: "What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?"

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

FYI:
AWARE ran a 1/3 page ad in March of 2007 in the New-Gazette that noted 
the 5th year of the US Invasion of Iraq.
AWARE treasury donated $267.75.
We raised $1,791.00 (individual donations) for a total of $2058.75 for 
6 columns x 7.5".
AWARE requested the Sunday paper in the commentary section.
Prices may have gone up.




On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:

> How much do you suppose it would cost to put the ADC ad in the DI or
> the News-Gazette...? Could we swing it...?
>
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>
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/27-5
>
> Published on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
> What if Israel Were in Your Neighborhood?
>
> by Russell Mokhiber
>
> I left Washington last week when many friends and family members were
> coming here to celebrate the inauguration of our first
> African-American President.
>
> My eleven year-old son asked me -- why turn your back on Obama?
>
> I threw back at him Martin Luther King -- It's not the color of his
> skin, it's the content of his character.
>
> What does it say about Obama's character that he sides with the
> Israeli slaughter machine against those that it slaughters?
>
> What does it say about the character of his "progressive" supporters,
> who cry for joy at his inauguration, but say not a peep about the
> slaughter machine and its victims?
>
> (See, for example, former AIPAC staffer and "progressive Democratic"
> columnist David Sirota, who broke down and cried watching Obama's
> inauguration, but has not written one word about the slaughter in
> Gaza.)
>
> Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) took out full
> page ads in major newspapers around the country.
>
> The ad was titled: What if Hamas Was in Your Neighborhood? (link to ad
> at: http://www.adl.org/Israel/posters/HamasAd_Phoenix.pdf [1])
>
> The ad showed missiles reigning down on Phoenix, or Boston, or 
> Washington, D.C.
>
> "Imagine if Hamas terrorists were targeting you and your family," the
> ad read. "No country would allow such danger on its border, and
> neither will Israel. That's why Israel is fighting back."
>
> In response, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
> last week put up an ad on its web site titled -- What If Israel Were
> in Your Neighborhood? (Link to ad at:
> http://www.adc.org/PDF/gazaposter.pdf [2])
>
> Answer?
>
> Death and Destruction with American built F-16 fighter jets and Apache
> helicopters.
>
> Yes, when Hamas launches rockets that kill innocent civilians, it
> engages in war crimes.
>
> But Hamas has no Army, no Navy, no Air Force.
>
> The slaughter machine has a modern military with hundreds of nuclear
> weapons and U.S. supplied F-16s and Apache helicopters.
>
> So, there is a balance of terror.
>
> And the Palestinian bodies tip the scales in the slaughter machine's 
> favor.
>
> Since the first rocket was launched into Israel in 2002 up until the
> December 17, 2008 invasion of Gaza, the Israel body count was maybe
> two dozen.
>
> The Palestinian body count was 2,700.
>
> That would be about 100 to one.
>
> Since the invasion, the Israeli body count is 14.
>
> The Palestinian body count was more than 1,400.
>
> That would be about 100 to one.
>
> As the ADC ad puts it: "Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be
> justified by self-defense. An armed attack that is not justified by
> self-defense is a war of aggression. Under the Nuremberg Principles
> affirmed by U.N. Resolution 95, aggression is a crime against peace.
> Prosecute Israel for War Crimes."
>
> So, here's one concrete thing you can do to counter the slaughter
> machine's propaganda.
>
> If you are interested in placing the "What If Israel Were in Your
> Neighborhood?" ad in your local newspaper, contact ADC's Nabil
> Mohammad at organizing at adc.org [3].
>
> Turn the tide of terror.
> Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate
> Crime Reporter [4].
>
> -- 
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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